President Putin has defended his invasion of Ukraine claiming it was a forced response to plans by the West to invade Russia. During his speech in Red Square at the country’s annual Victory Day parade, which marks the Soviet Union’s triumph over Hitler’s Nazis, he said Russian forces were “fighting for the Motherland.” But he
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s jetliner, dubbed the “doomsday plane,” was expected to be featured in Putin’s “Victory Day” parade but was pulled at the last minute because of weather. CNN’s Brian Todd explains what the plane does. #BrainTodd #TheSituationRoom #CNN
1:34 PM ET The Cleveland Guardians game against the Chicago White Sox has been postponed because of multiple positive COVID-19 tests within the Guardians organization, Major League Baseball announced Wednesday. The game was postponed to allow for continued testing and contact tracing. MLB will provide a rescheduling update when it becomes available. It was announced
A quake of magnitude 5 shook the surface of Mars on May 4, as per a seismometer placed by NASA’s InSight lander on the planet. The seismic event has been dubbed a “monster” quake by the space agency given that it is the strongest temblor ever detected not just on Mars but also on any
The UK economy contracted by 0.1% in March, as surging inflation took a toll on demand to offset the boost that had been expected from the end of COVID restrictions. The monthly figure compares to no growth in February and 0.7% growth in January, while the quarterly figure (between January and March) showed a growth
A teenage girl in Bristol who has been missing since April is now believed to have been abducted, according to police. Maddie Thomas, 15, disappeared in the Southmead area on 26 April. Avon and Somerset Police said they are “no longer investigating Maddie’s disappearance as a missing person case but as a child abduction”. Officers
A man who strangled his girlfriend died of a heart attack while burying her body in the backyard, investigators say. Joseph McKinnon’s body was found on Saturday in the small town of Trenton, South Carolina, after neighbours reported an unconscious man. Emergency services were called out but could not revive him. As sheriff’s deputies investigated
Tory backbenchers are pushing for tax cuts after Boris Johnson was said to have shown “more than a bit of ankle” on doing so to address the cost of living crisis. Jake Berry, the Conservative MP who leads a group of Tories representing northern constituencies, said it was “now or never” for Mr Johnson to
Chelsea FC is close to unveiling a £20m-a-year sponsorship deal with a fast-growing cryptocurrency group – despite a temporary ban on the club striking lucrative new partnerships while it operates under government supervision. Sky News can reveal that the Blues have agreed a shirt-sleeve contract with WhaleFin, a digital asset platform owned by Singapore-based Amber
Rebekah Vardy has told the High Court she was “just joking” following an allegation she told her agent to leak a story about a female celebrity having an affair with a footballer. The 40-year-old is currently suing Coleen Rooney after being publicly accused of leaking “false stories” to the media in 2019. Rooney has claimed
Commercial EV manufacturer Xos, Inc. unveiled three new products as part of its “fleet week” celebration today, including new medium- and heavy-duty all-electric trucks. Additionally, the company introduced Xosphere (“ex-ose-sphere”) – its new fleet management platform to monitor vehicle performance and efficiency in real time. Xos Inc. ($XOS) is a SoCal-based manufacturer specializing in Class 5 to
Political activist and member of the Russian band Pussy Riot has reportedly fled the country disguised as food courier after criticising Vladimir Putin. Maria Alyokhina and her fellow band members first came to the attention of the Russian authorities after staging a protest against the Russian president inside Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in 2012.
The prices for gas and diesel fuel, over $6.00 a gallon, are displayed at a petrol station in Los Angeles, March 2, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Gasoline prices surged to the highest level on record Tuesday as oil holds steady above $100 a barrel, contributing to inflationary pressures across the
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A motorist in Arizona rushes to save the life of a state trooper who was shot and being beaten. CNN’s Stephanie Elam reports.
The government will not be bringing forward an emergency budget in light of the cost of living crisis, but “will be saying more and doing more to help people”, Michael Gove has said. Responding to the government’s Queen’s Speech on Tuesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed the government was “bereft of ideas” as the
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan hopes to convince U.S. tech firms to invest more in London. Leon Neal | Getty Images Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, traveled to California as part of a trade mission to try to convince Silicon Valley tech leaders to invest more money in the U.K. capital. On Tuesday, Khan
As Russian troops continue their pounding of the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol, a photo-journalist has revealed the grim extent of the suffering inside. In a series of stark pictures, a photographer with the press office of the Azov Special Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard has unveiled the horror of the dimly-lit, makeshift
An on-the-run prison officer and a murder suspect who were having a “jailhouse romance” had loaded their getaway truck with cash and weapons ready for a firefight with police. After a car chase on Monday, escaped inmate Casey White surrendered to authorities, but the prison worker was found with a gunshot wound to the head
Elon Musk said that Tesla may stop taking orders on some models of its popular electric vehicles because of the long delivery timelines. There’s currently a rush to order electric vehicles as the technology gains momentum – both naturally, as it becomes more mainstream, and in the short term, more directly through the gas price
UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei says moves by U.S. authorities to introduced NOPEC legislation would bring chaos to energy markets. AFP | Getty Images Top OPEC ministers have hit back at new U.S. legislation intended to regulate its output, saying such efforts would bring greater chaos to energy markets. UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al
Sky News projects that, if the 4.5 million votes cast in the local elections were extrapolated to a general election, the result would be a hung parliament. Along with a team of psephologists, Sky’s data and economics editor Ed Conway has calculated that the Tories would remain the largest party with 278 seats, closely followed
Military expert Forbes McKenzie walks through a drone video of a firefight in Ukraine, released by Russia. CNN’s Salma Abdelaziz reports. #CNN #News
In this article TWTR TSLA Musk’s plan to buy Twitter has worried policymakers around the world. Joe Skipper | Reuters Elon Musk said Tuesday he would reverse Twitter‘s ban on former President Donald Trump if his acquisition goes through. “Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots, or scam,
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is set to buy Twitter, has said he would reverse the platform’s “foolish” ban on former US president Donald Trump if his acquisition goes through. The tech tycoon said: “Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots or spam, scam accounts. I do think it
Mike Tyson will not face criminal charges after he allegedly punched a passenger on a plane in San Francisco. Mobile phone footage showed the former world heavyweight boxing champion, 55, appearing to hit a man in a seat behind him. Representatives for the star said: “Unfortunately, Mr Tyson had an incident on a flight with
Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra have been voted through to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest. It means the band have solidified their position as favourites in the competition. Others countries which also progressed from the first semi-final to Saturday’s final were Switzerland, Armenia, Iceland, Lithuania, Portugal, Norway, Greece, Moldova and the Netherlands. The UK,
The Russian offensive in the breakaway Donbas region of eastern Ukraine is “building” and is expected to peak in the next two to three weeks, according to Sky’s defence analyst Michael Clarke. He also said what happens between now and the end of this month will determine how much room for manoeuvre President Vladimir Putin
Boris Johnson has hinted at an announcement about addressing the cost of living crisis in coming days – but the Treasury swiftly denied there would be an emergency budget. The prime minister came under pressure over the surge in prices facing British households during the Commons debate on the Queen’s Speech, which sets out the
Households are being urged to get their finances in the best shape possible amid increasing evidence of increased stress over the growing cost of living crisis – now said to be the main concern for people across the UK. A debt advice charity told Sky News it was helping thousands of new clients navigate problem
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera achieved great feats for the American Space agency. The retired observatory has captured several spectacular images of the deep space until recently. It was the first of its kind to provide high-resolution images of the near- and mid-infrared universe. And, now, we are glad that it has received
The first ever photograph of a black hole — a fiery ring of light that surrounded a black pit of emptiness — stunned the world three years ago. The Event Horizon Telescope, a global network of synchronised radio dishes serving as one large telescope, brought that image of the black hole at the centre of
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